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A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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I hope someone creates another site from the perspective of the engineer who has to implement his outlandish designs. The first sentence: "If it were as simple to do on a website as it is in Photoshop, I would have done it". Followed by: "I'm paying you so do what the fuck I want."

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

#4
Some of the samples are compelling and beautiful. I'm annoyed they are not clickable.

But the rest is kind of "meh". Like I've never heard a talented, intelligent professional whine before about this type thing. My advice: Put some of that intelligence towards learning how to better market yourself or some such so you make better money and have less to kvetch about.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

#6
Maybe, just maybe, a really really talented designer can get away sounding that cocky, but I doubt they would.

Taste is subjective, but this is my area of expertise and I'd say he's middle of the road, so his attitude comes across as plain old arrogance to me.

I also think that web designers should be able to code, but that's a whole other debate.

Re: A web designer with an attitude (he did his site while drunk)

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I hope someone creates another site from the perspective of the engineer who has to implement his outlandish designs. The first sentence: "If it were as simple to do on a website as it is in Photoshop, I would have done it". Followed by: "I'm paying you so do what the fuck I want."

The only "engineers" that complain about implementing "outlandish" designs are ones who don't understand HTML/CSS/JS as much as they say they do. Literally anything is possible on the Web.
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